Hard Mode Content Participation Poll

[Mezmera]

21 minutes ago, ShardWarrior said:

Well again, I think you are misunderstanding the post.  But whatever, you seem to be stuck on that and just want to insult people so good day to you. 

 

So I can see by subsequent posts that I was correct in my assumption.

 

Whatever gets you through the day.  I'll leave you to your assumptions so we can get this a smidge back to topic.  

[Ruin Mage]

What level 50 TF/SF would people, in theory, like to see get the Hard Mode treatment next?

[Marbing]

1 hour ago, Shadeknight said:

What level 50 TF/SF would people, in theory, like to see get the Hard Mode treatment next?

Definite:

Miss Liberty TF
LRSF

Dr. Kahn

Barracuda

Mabye:
Lady Grey

Tinmage

Apex

 

Edited August 18, 2022 by Marbing

[Mezmera]

5 minutes ago, Shadeknight said:

What level 50 TF/SF would people, in theory, like to see get the Hard Mode treatment next?

 

I want a fresh Hard Mode task force in Praetoria that doesn't need to be super long along the lines of a combined Apex/Tin.  It's such a shame those zones are going to waste and what better way to entice people over there than something like this.  They'd need to get some of those zones oro accessible though.  

Edited August 18, 2022 by Mezmera

[Bionic_Flea]

3 minutes ago, Mezmera said:

I want a fresh Hard Mode task force in Praetoria

We still need to get a good look at Praetorian Hammy!  A TF or Trial that had us battling the Seed and Avatar as well as Hammy might be pretty epic.

[arcane]

27 minutes ago, ShardWarrior said:

 

Sad as it is to say, no unfortunately.  Compassion and understanding and mutual respect seem to be in very short supply here, which I find very unfortunate.

The holier than thou routine is a bit much. You contribute just as much to the conflict as anyone.

[Astralock]

1 hour ago, Shadeknight said:

What level 50 TF/SF would people, in theory, like to see get the Hard Mode treatment next?

Barracuda SF, obviously.  You dislike escorting the four Arachnos patrons around a Fifth Column cave map now?  Try it at tier 4, with the Fifth Column Incarnate boosted!  Experience the joy of fighting Reichsman with never-ending Incarnate Fifth Column ambushes… not for twenty minutes, but for two hours!

[Ruin Mage]

LMAO.

[Marbing]

16 minutes ago, Astralock said:

Barracuda SF, obviously.  You dislike escorting the four Arachnos patrons around a Fifth Column cave map now?  Try it at tier 4, with the Fifth Column Incarnate boosted!  Experience the joy of fighting Reichsman with never-ending Incarnate Fifth Column ambushes… not for twenty minutes, but for two hours!

Sign me up!

[Bill Z Bubba]

5 hours ago, ShardWarrior said:

Sad as it is to say, no unfortunately.  Compassion and understanding and mutual respect seem to be in very short supply here, which I find very unfortunate.

 

4 hours ago, arcane said:

The holier than thou routine is a bit much. You contribute just as much to the conflict as anyone.

 

Neither of you are wrong and I'm fully aware I've added to the crap as well. Sometimes we have to. Sometimes we should. Some opinions (that usually aren't opinions and are rather factually untrue statements) are so ridiculously stupid that they must be called out and mocked. As they say, evil wins when good humans do nothing.

[ShardWarrior]

2 hours ago, Bill Z Bubba said:

Neither of you are wrong and I'm fully aware I've added to the crap as well. Sometimes we have to. Sometimes we should. Some opinions (that usually aren't opinions and are rather factually untrue statements) are so ridiculously stupid that they must be called out and mocked. As they say, evil wins when good humans do nothing.

 

I am in no way a saint here either nor have I ever claimed to be.  I agree, sometimes contributing to the crap is necessary. 

[Xiddo]

I appreciate this might be a different topic… If you don’t want Hard Mode content, what content do you actually want them to add?

[espectro]

12 hours ago, Bill Z Bubba said:

 

 

Neither of you are wrong and I'm fully aware I've added to the crap as well. Sometimes we have to. Sometimes we should. Some opinions (that usually aren't opinions and are rather factually untrue statements) are so ridiculously stupid that they must be called out and mocked. As they say, evil wins when good humans do nothing.

Everyone needs to chill out and smoke a fatty Mr devil man, so there.

[Bill Z Bubba]

11 minutes ago, espectro said:

Everyone needs to chill out and smoke a fatty Mr devil man, so there.

 

I would but I have to stay clean in case of piss tests for a new job. And that's with living in a state with legal pot. Damnit.

[Tachstar]

1 hour ago, Xiddo said:

I appreciate this might be a different topic… If you don’t want Hard Mode content, what content do you actually want them to add?

 

I'd like to see a rebuilt Galaxy City, complete with story arcs and maybe a TF or two. See also: more content for the old Dark Astoria, which (IMO) should never have been made an 'Echo'. Keep the new Incarnated version, of course, but let it be accessed via, I dunno, some sort of Incarnate content hub. Or maybe make the Incarnated version accessible once a character slots something in the Alpha slot. 'You have unlocked the all-new, all-different Incarnated Dark Astoria! Woot!'

 

Not opposed to HM stuff. Not opposed to even more HM stuff, for the folks who like that. It's just not my thing. Like pickled pigs feet. Some folks like that, but I don't want any. /e shrug

[Seed22]

5 hours ago, Xiddo said:

I appreciate this might be a different topic… If you don’t want Hard Mode content, what content do you actually want them to add?

Actually GOOD fucking leveling content would be nice for once.

 

Hell GOOD story arcs beyond what Peice did would be nice too. Want people around? Give em something GOOD to level with instead of what we have now

[Astralock]

1 minute ago, Seed22 said:

Actually GOOD fucking leveling content would be nice for once.

 

Hell GOOD story arcs beyond what Peice did would be nice too. Want people around? Give em something GOOD to level with instead of what we have now

Never play red nor gold sides, I take it?

[Mezmera]

3 minutes ago, Seed22 said:

Actually GOOD fucking leveling content would be nice for once.

 

Hell GOOD story arcs beyond what Peice did would be nice too. Want people around? Give em something GOOD to level with instead of what we have now

 

I concur with @Astralock if you want well written good content see Praetoria and the Rogue Isles.  There is so. much. stuff.  

[Seed22]

8 minutes ago, Astralock said:

Never play red nor gold sides, I take it?

I have actually, first 50 was red. I meant for bluesiders. Whoopsie!

 

I did all of red waaaaaaaaay back in the day when Stalkers were only redside. And I went through Praetoria, which was…ok.

 

EDIT: To be clear, and drive this point home, blueside has the largets players on it, and the contact mishs are TERRIGODAWFUL from 1-50. Thats not good, outside of select arcs

Edited August 19, 2022 by Seed22

[Mezmera]

3 minutes ago, Seed22 said:

EDIT: To be clear, and drive this point home, blueside has the largets players on it, and the contact mishs are TERRIGODAWFUL from 1-50. Thats not good, outside of select arcs

 

Everyone has the choice of going to all three areas to start.  Two of which have the far superior content.  Yet the bland blueside is chosen by so many people.  Kind of looks like people tend to more want to congregate to areas with higher populations and opportunities to level faster.  

 

Blueside has the DFB and a bunch of task forces other then that it's very hokey. 

 

Maybe we should write a story arc where Tyrant and Lord Recluse join forces to obliterate blueside so it forces people to all of this other unplayed content.  

[Luminara]

3 hours ago, Xiddo said:

I appreciate this might be a different topic… If you don’t want Hard Mode content, what content do you actually want them to add?

 

Sinister Six/Legion of Doom team-ups.  An entire aspect of comic books, enemies working together, was almost entirely ignored.  Instead of *Fs being major events in which multiple enemy groups pool their resources to take on the heroes/villains, multiple AVs/Heroes entering coalitions, crossovers between story arcs occurring... they ended up being typical story arcs, sending us to plod through a dozen "Go to this base and beat up the same bad guys" missions, with an AV crammed into the finale to differentiate them from ordinary story arcs.  Why didn't Countess Crey and Arakhn conspire to break Doc Vahz out of prison so they could work together to create the ultimate hero killer?  Why didn't the Center ever sit down with Nemesis to form an alliance?  Because Cryptic and Paragon had tunnel vision when they made *Fs, followed the same stale formula they used for the base content, and just increased the minimum team size to make them "harder".  The enemy group and/or AV is forgotten, cast aside, rarely or never seen again... and we spend our twilight days fighting Borachnos and Romans, instead of having our rogues' gallery dogging our steps.

 

The closest we get to a cool Sinister Six/Legion of Doom scenario is the last arc in Faultline.  Those bad guys weren't even working together and it was more interesting than any *Fs in the game.

 

I don't care about the Manticore TF, to use one example,  because I already have access to a long, tedious series of missions which culminate with me beating up Countess Crey.  I don't care about any of the *Fs, because that's all any of them are, more of the same.  I would care about a Manticore TF which features Countess Crey, Requiem and Dreck joining forces to put an end to me and my friends for all of the times we've interfered with their plans.  That would be engaging, much more comic-booky, and that would provide a perfect, and completely rational, opportunity for the HC team to do what they're doing now, giving existing enemies extra abilities as the Hard Mode ramps up.  What they're doing now doesn't capture my attention, or make much sense in the game world (how did those enemies gain those extra abilities?  oh, we edited some files).  I'd care about Hard Mode if it weren't more of the same with extra buffs/debuffs inexplicably thrown in.

[Texman]

4 hours ago, Tachstar said:

 

I'd like to see a rebuilt Galaxy City, complete with story arcs and maybe a TF or two. See also: more content for the old Dark Astoria, which (IMO) should never have been made an 'Echo'. Keep the new Incarnated version, of course, but let it be accessed via, I dunno, some sort of Incarnate content hub. Or maybe make the Incarnated version accessible once a character slots something in the Alpha slot. 'You have unlocked the all-new, all-different Incarnated Dark Astoria! Woot!'

 

Not opposed to HM stuff. Not opposed to even more HM stuff, for the folks who like that. It's just not my thing. Like pickled pigs feet. Some folks like that, but I don't want any. /e shrug

 

I'd like to see Kallisti Wharf turned into an Atlas Park 2.0 for lvl 40-50+ or maybe even just 50+ like you said it could be that "incarnate hub".  That zone looks so nice I think it would be a place people would want to hang out and chat, fight crime, do missions etc.  

[ShardWarrior]

1 hour ago, Luminara said:

Sinister Six/Legion of Doom team-ups. 

 

I really like this idea! 😁  Would love to see some all new enemy NPC groups too. 

[Bionic_Flea]

3 hours ago, Luminara said:

Sinister Six/Legion of Doom team-ups.

One of my favorite story arcs:  https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Viridian#The_Conference_of_Evil

[golstat2003]

On 8/17/2022 at 1:12 PM, Mezmera said:

 

A poll here is an okay sampler but it'd be good to paste that poll elsewheres as well particularly where all of the kids hang out.  

 

It's funny, half of the comments here are, to quote the great Sgt. Murtaugh, "I'm too old for this sh*t", and all they like to do is solo.  Like okay that's great this game has such vast resources that you never need to team or socialize beyond the forums but this game has some of the best teaming mechanics and that is the intent being a MMO and all which is what these Hard Mode task forces are designed to give more emphasis towards.  

 

Meh you can team just fine and ignore Hard Mode content. I mostly do it only when it's a farm speed run now. Regular runs with PUGs I've found completely unpleasant.